Quotes by Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
West, Rebecca
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
West, Rebecca
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
West, Rebecca
He is every other inch a gentleman.
West, Rebecca
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
West, Rebecca